LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Faster Stronger Better
In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?
The Mersey class lifeboat...
Category: Articles
At a Ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7
At a ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7, County Councillor J. Ormond Holliday, vice-president of Silloth branch, opened the station's new tractor house and then Silloth's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, principally... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Syren
The ketch Syren of Beaumaris, whilst bound from Pwllheli to Runcorn stranded near the Gimblet Rock on the 8th March after dragging her anchors. Immedi- ately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the Life-boat Margaret Platt...
A Great Example of How a Picture Can Paint a Thousand Words
A great example of how a picture can paint a thousand words - Sheringham lifeboatmen share a cup of tea with the rescued crew of the Canadian steamer faglesdiffe Hall. - View image in PDF
Photo; Nfws Chronicle. 30 October 1941. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ben Blanche
Mumbles, Glamorganshire, and Tenby , Pembrokeshire.—Some time after mid- night on the 18th-19th December the steamer Ben Blanche, of Ramsey, ran on the rocks to the west of Port Eynon Head. She was bqund from Dundoon, in Northern Ireland, to...
Cardium
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Alexandra was called by the Coastguard at 6 A.M. on the 23rd March, a steamer having stranded on the "Book" rock. The boat was launched at once and found that the vessel was the oil-tank steamer...
Swimming in style
The evolution of the humble swimsuit tells an interesting story of wider social conventions …
Daft costumes are the order of the day when it comes to a festive fundraising dip for charity but,...
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Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 538 NOTES OF THE QUARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539 THE YACHTSMEN'S LIFE-BOAT SUPPORTERS' ASSOCIATION 542 TUSKER ROCK JOINT RESCUE ...
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Books
• Peter Mitchell's book The Wrecker's Guide to South West Devon has been written in response to the demands of the thousands of diving enthusiasts who each year travel to the West Country in search of the wrecks which litter its...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. — At 4.44 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Flamborough Head coast- guard telephoned that a boy, swim- ming in Thornwick Bay, had been washed on to the rocks below Thorn- wick Bay Camp. The life-boat...